Speed recorder and indicator.



PATENTED DEC. 10, 1907.

F.LY01 I.", I SPEED RECORDER AND INDICATOR.

APPLIQATION FILED DBO. 29, I905.

UNITED STATES PATENT onmcn.

FRED LYON, or IrHAoA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALFIIO EDWARD E. INGALLS, or

. j ITnAcA, NEW YORK.

v SPEED'RECORDER AND INDICATOR.

Patented Dec. 10, 1907' 1 '0 all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that FRED LYON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ithaca, in the countyof Tompkins and State of New York, has invented certain new and useful Improvements in Speed Recorders and Indicators for Automobiles, of which the following is a specification.

his invention relates to new and useful improvements in speed recorders and indicators for automobiles.

The structure contemplated relates particularly to a construction of that type wherein a permanent record day by day is traced the details of the invention being such that the record is traced to show the speed at any hour or minute of the day.

It is a primary object of the present inyention to provide in conjunction with the speed recording apparatus, a visual speed indicating apparatus which ma be read at a glance and which is driven y the same motor and with the same impulses as the recording apparatus.

It is a further object of my invention to provide in connection with the various operating elements, a removable chart, designed for one days work, whereby the records for weeks or months at a time as 'may be desired may be preserved. This arrangement is especially advanta cons to tourists, who in rapidly driving t rough a village are liable to fines for exceeding the speed limits, as the permanent record madeby the apparatus embodying the present invention shows the exact speed at which the machine was running at the time it was judged that the speed limits were exceeded, and may be submitted as evidence to contravene guess-work testimony of spectators.

The detailed construction will appear in the course of the following description, in which reference is had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification,

like numerals designating like parts throughout the several views, in which:

Figure 1 is a front elevation showing the arran ement of the record chart and indicator, the lowerart of the apparatus being broken away; big. 2 is a longitudinal section thereof, and Fig. 3 is an elevation of the record chart.

Referringlspecificall to the accompanying drawings, t e numera 1 designates a casing which is employed to contain the constituent elements of the apparatus and is formed with are preferably employed. These openings are closed by sheets of glass or other transparent ,material, and are arranged one above the other, the top 0 ening 5, being arc -shape and permitting of t e reading of the indicator therethrough, the central opening 6, being circular, and permitting of the reading of the record chart therethrough, and the lowermost opening 7, being designed for the reading of a cyclometer 71, the mechanism of which is located in an enlarged portion 8, of the front wall 3. The provision of a 'c clometer does not constitute any part of t e present invention, as the operating mechanism therefor is independent of the rest of the apparatus, and it is merely employed for the sake of convenience in maintaining a complete record at all tlmes.

The transparent sheet 6 which closes the central openi mg is secured 1n a frameG hinged to the front wall 3 as at 6*, in the usual H1tI11IlG1"Of the door of a clock, whereby upon opening said frame 6 access may be had to the interior of the, casing, for the purpose of making 7 changes or repairs.

The bottom plate 4., is provided with a central opening 9, which is threaded to receive an apertured bushing 10, which is provided upon itstop and bottom surfaces with run ways to receive ball-bearings 11, interposed between saidsurfaces and between spaced peripheral flanges 12, formed upon a shaft 13, extending through said buhsing 10, and operatively connected to and driven by the hub of the wheel.

In order to protect the bearings from dust I have secured upon the bushing 10, a cap or guard 14, formed with a central opening through which the shaft 13 passes. ltigidly secured to said shaft 13, within the casing 1, and adjacent to the bottom plate 4, is a collar 15, which is formed on opposite. sides with spaced apert ured lugs 16, arranged in pairs, between which are fulcrumed asiat 17, the reduced ends of governor-weights 18, which are provided upon their upper portions with ears 19, to which one of the ends of links 20, are fulcrumed, the other ends ofsaid links being fulcrumed to cars 21, arranged in on each side of a rod 22, which is formed with a hollow lower portion which fits over the top of the shaft 13, in a sleeved An expansive spiral-spring 23, is'

relation. interposed between the shaft 13, in a sleeved relation betweenthe collar and the rod 22. In approximately the central portion ,of the cas' 1, a clock mechanism is mounted in asuita le housing 24, which is supported from the sides of said casi by brackets 25. Mounted upon the face of t e housing 24, is a dial-plate 26. A disk-shaped plate 27 is rigidly mounted upon the arbor 28, to which 7 the hour-hand 29 is secured. The plate 27 is I made some thin transparent material such .a'sjii'nica, and moves upon the arbor 28 with the hour-hand 29. Said plate 27 is of greater diameter than the casing 24, and so. overlies the same for an equal distance at all .29 points along its periphery. Mounted adjacent to the periphery of the plate 27, is a chart'30, of annual confi ation, which is removably secured to sai plate in any suitable manner. The chart 30 is provided with the numerals upon the dial of the clock, but said numerals are arranged in reverse order, "so as to read backwards, as indicated at 31.

vThe chart 303s formed upon its face with-a series of annual concentric lines ormarkings 32, which serve as a scale for recording the varying degrees of speed at which the machine is traveling through connected mechanisms to be described. L; The rear wall 2, of the casing 1, is formed .with laterally extending brackets. 33, arranged in spaced superposed relation and in axial -alinement which serve as guides for a vertical. rod 34, having connection at its lower end with a horizontal arm 35, universally mounted as at 36, upon the end of the rod22. The upper end of the rod 34 has connection with a horizontal arm 37, w h follows in its contour the general contour of-the u per wall of the casing 1. The free end of t e arm 37, is apertured to receive a marker 38, which carries'at its lower end a removable pencil 39, overlying and bearing against the chart 30, secured to the disk 27. y I

To 'the free end of the arm 37 is fulcrumed one end of a 'verticall -extendin.g link 40, the other end of which is fulcrumed to a horizontal link 41, which has rigid connection as at'42 with a pintle 43, journaled in the front wall 3, of the casing 1. An indicator hand 44, is also rigidly mounted upon the pintle 43, sov as to move therewith. The indicator hand 44 overlies a plate 45, depending from the to of the casing 1, the plate 45, being provided with a scale as at 46, which is arranged in the shape of an arc of a circle. The link connections 40 and 41 are shown in Fig. 1, the front wall 3, being broken away for the purpose of illustration.

55 In'operation the shaft 13 is drivenfrom the 's ed the at 10 oclock it was making hub of the vehicle, and in accordance with its governor weights 18, mounted t ereupon 1n .the usual manner, will be thrown outwardly, the greater the degree of speed the greater the degree of outward movement of said weights. As said wei hts 18 are thrown outwardly, correspon downward movement will be imparted to the rod 22, through the link connections 20, and as said rod 22 -moves downwardly, corresponding downward -movement wi 1 be imparted to the rod 34, connected therewith by the arm 35, and in turn to the marker 38, secured to the arm 37 mounted upon the upper end of the rod 34. It will be seen that as the chart 30 moves with the hour hand, the speed at which the machine is traveling at any par ticular time, will always be recorded by the relation of the mark of the pencil 39, to the scale upon the chart 30, and the particular time at which such speed was maintained, will be 'found in the relation of the mark traced to the space between the hour divisions.

As shown in Fig. 1, the scale 32, has lines, which register the miles in decimal order, starting with 0 and extendin to 60. Hence in reading the mark trace upon the figure, it will be seen that the machine was started at about twenty minutes after 9, that thirty miles an -past twelve it stopped, and was started again very shortly, an stopped again at two.

The indicating mechanism is the rod 34, and the rod 37 with hour, that at about ha operated by the same impulses b which the recording mechanism is operate When the rod 34 moves downwardly, such movement will be imparted to the link 40, and throughconnecting link 41,

the pintle 43 will be revolved, and carr in" therewith the indicator hand 44, which moves along the scale 46, and constantly indicates the speed. at which the machine is traveling.

Inasmuch as the disk 27 carryin the chart 30 travels with the hour hand, sai chart will make one revolution in twelve hours, at which time the record for the day will be complete. The chart 30 is then removed and a new chart substituted, when another da s record is commenced. I-Iaving fully described my invention, I claim: g

1, In a device of the class described, the combination with a clock including a dial, of

a trans arent record carrier dis osed infront of sai dial and rotative t 'ere'with and through which the chin-actors on the dial are visible and provided with a record 2. In a device of the class describe 5, the combination with aolock including a dial,

the hands and their arbors, of a transparent a record carrier between said dial and'hands and through which the configuration of the dial is visible, and a record ring upon the carrier and concentric with the dial and beyond the same.

3. In a device of the class described, the combination with a, clock including a dial, of

. a trans arent record carrier disposed in front of sai dial and rotative therewith and through which the Configuration of the same .is visible and provided with a record ring, a

speed indicatin device, a pencil operative ,over said recor ring, and connecting means between said pencil and speed indicating de- .vice.

4. In a device of the class described, the

combination with a clockincluding a dial and devices, a pencil operative over said record ring, and connecting means between said pencil and speed indicating devices.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRED LYON.

Witnesses: a,

EDWARD E. INGALLS,

T. K. BRYANT. I 

